'International Dialogue and Identity'

On the international scene, the observation of the choices and attitudes might generate conflict, adding to the underlying causes of antagonisms. Focusing on the relationship between choice and interpretation, a greater control of this issue could perhaps be achieved. In an interactive context, the choices made by other agents (including the choice of certain speech acts) are signals that reveal potentially important information about the way in which these agents weigh or rank the different values guiding their choices, or about different aspects of their respective relationship to benchmark norms or principles. 

Emmanuel Picavet is Professor of Applied Ethics at the Paris I Sorbonne-University. With Gilles Campagnolo he edits the journal Revue de philosophie économique. At the Sorbonne University, Professor Picavet co-chairs an interdisciplinary research group on ethics, philosophy and legal studies. He has published widely in the field of political ethics and has recently edited an issue of the journal Diogène with the title Formes de vie et institutions : entre nature et artifice (2023).

Emmanuel Picavet will give another talk on 'Identity and the Normative Side of Dialogue' from 5 to 6pm on Wednesday 26 February.